Martin O’Malley Is Pissed
21st June 2015
John Hinderaker does a little fisking.
Democratic presidential contender Martin O’Malley is pissed about the Charleston shootings. That is what he said in an email to supporters. So, is he pissed at the murderer, Dylann Roof? Don’t be silly! He’s pissed at Republicans. When you’re a Democrat, it’s all politics, all the time.
Every bad thing that hits the news is yet another stick with which Democrites try to beat Republicans, even when Republicans as such had nothing to do with it.
And yet cities that are run by Democrites and undergoing major meltdowns, like Detroit, or murder machines, like Chicago, are apparently nobody’s fault, or else everybody’s fault, like Global Warming.
The real issue relating to straw purchasing is lack of enforcement. Under the Obama administration, federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses have declined by 30% to 40% compared with the Bush years. Eric Holder’s politicized Department of Justice had higher priorities than prosecuting actual crimes. As is so often the case, it makes much more sense to enforce laws already on the books than to pass new ones.
But Democrites get Election Points for passing new cool-sounding laws, even if they don’t do anything effective, rather than, you know, enforcing existing law, which might leave them open to Being Evaluated On Performance, to which they react like Bela Lugosi to garlic.
I’d be more interested in whether O’Malley is ‘pissed’ about the crime wave in Baltimore, of which he was once mayor and of which he is at present Governor, and just what he plans to do about it. Oh, wait, that would be Being Evaluated On Performance, and we can’t have that.